New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-12

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Andrew Jackson wake.
There is some satisfaction in the reflection that
Juvenile crime In the city is decreasing. The COM
mjtments OF girls and women for vagrancy have
fallen on oneh half in six years, while therc Is u
like djmjnution Of childrens crimes. For TINS I'M
movement much credit is due to the Chlldrehs
Aid Society and kindred institutions. That one
society sheltered and taught last year 11,s2o boys
and girls The average cost OF the WORK was
SAT 65 for each child It costs s107 65 Tor each
prisoner maintained In the Tombs. This Illus
trates the old proverb that ounce OF prevention
is worth a pound OF cure. But it seems to be DIFF
Acult TO impress this fact on our city govern
ment. which turns away 1000 children from the
doors of the public school buildings for lack OF
room.
aThere IL no pretence that any direct evidence of
his guilt has been published" says Justice barrett
OF Jacob Sharp. It is believed, though, that the
direct evidence OF his guilt is procurable and that
u will he forthcoming at his approaching trial.
What triumph Of jnstice il will he when the chief
orerator in the doodle" conspiracy gets his
deserts
We ,hr not do violence tho Of eood taste nv
engaging controversy over Mr. Roa:hs Tnits pc
,sh.s interview attrn,en hs failure 10 resilient be
havor OF tho Free Traders who had led the shnowners
10 believe that the navigation law. womb soon oe 70
re.eh thus bringing about dearth OF business IN inc
shr yards rhe Evenipg Pos.
This statement has been made once before by The
Erening Pos, and promptly corrected by THE TRIB-
Uyr In the course of the same Interview IN which
reference was made 10 the pestent Free Traders Mr.
Roach clearly and Enthusiastically attributed his
failure to the persecution of the Government cul-
minating IN the opinion by the Attorney General
bv which his credit was destroyed well-knOwn
banker wroro letter to THE TRIBUNE year ago
affirming as n matter of fact, tia the banks
vonld have refused to lend Mr. Roach money after
the Attorney General had fOrma ly declared him to
be liable for prosecution for every dollar received
on the illegal" contracts The Government
destroyed his credit. rha. was the precise cause
of Mr.. Roachs failure. We bog orr contemporary
not to violate tho canons OF drcency by repeating
when Mr. Roach is dead, misstatements which
have been successfully refuted when he was alive
"1hc Albany Argus announces that the East
tern New-Yorl Bee keepers Association will hold
It's meeting in Albany this week. Considering
that Governor Hill is an industrious beekcerer
the Presidential bee that he has in his bonnet
commanding the attention OF the country-lt
would be only the proper thing for the Associa-
ton to invite him TO preside.
The fault OF extravaganza OF statement is some
times laid at the door OF the American
papers, but the city OF Albany is now finding
fault with "Iho Philadelphia Times" for what
IL feels warranted in regarding a n too, too mod
est understatcmcnt in the columns of that jour
nal Albany lately a propriatcd 81 1000 for the
purchase of an oil painting Of Samuel j. 1ilden
"Ihe Times" thereupon published this restrained
paragraph mr.. 1idcn's memory is again re-
- (fott
Gil. which has generously voted the munificent
sum OF 81 for n photograph Of the DEPARTED
sage In, Common Council Of the Capital ARE
now cunning II; y understood, for the man who
affirmed that figures wouldn't lio
The Star publishes frank correspondence
between Mr.. Morrison and Ex-Governor Dorsheimer
IN which the latter is accused of helping the ene-
mics OF tariff reform" An imputation like this IL
decidedly unpleasant to so good Democrat as the
Editor of The Star. and no points ont in spirited
reply that be wants the taxes reduced: and that if
he can't get IL done in way he will support an
other. This IL n phase of common sense politics
which so devoted partisan OF Free Trade rs Mr..
Morrison will hardly understand
That Mr. Roach thsn In position when doubts as
to the acceptance OF vessel oy tho boserument may
affected hi. itos hs credit IL quite probs
pic hut It was nothnR fr which tho SECRETARY Of tho
count -lNeW ORR rinsa
Or course the rabid organ Of the Free Traders tho
trescberous Times. hastvns to tho defence of tho
Administration which struck down 40 representa-
tive a ProectionIst aud Republican as Mr. Roach
But IL is excessively stupid TO assert that the Adj
ministraton was not responsible for Q course OF
procedure that destroy ell the credit Of contractor
who was building four ships for the Navy. Dir.
Roach's failure was the direct result Of q mon
MI ha Cane al nd
tary Whiineys partisan persecution, for neither
Of which was there adequate warrant, IN law or IN
fact. Responsibility for it cannot be shirked by
the Administration or its ipcohcrent apolog:sts.
Lord Randolph Churchill has been credited by
friend and foe with genius for discerning polit-
cal forces Is il not possible that he exercised that
talent when he threw up the Chancellorshpf |
Time will show whether his resignati was IN |